Expectations…….Unlimited

                         

            Avarice for unsatiated love and affection

                    with a begging bowl, always asking for more

                    Solitary, wandering here and there

             Deserting inner, outer circles fashion

              Burden of expectations weighing down

                      Spectre of desires, needs and wants

                       Rat race, peer pressure and family taunts

              Education in a dazzling convocation gown

                         

              Chagrin only, as eagerly anticipate

                         Disillusioned and doleful with regret

                           Never to bargain for, nothing to fret

               Churning out our destiny and fate

                Dipping esteem, reality bites, face fact

                           Twisted and awry, euphoria amiss

                          Yearning relinquished, diving into an abyss

                Bonding disconnected, no more sacrosanct

           

                Excursion, jaunt, journey and picnic

                            Dwindling by the day, a life cocooned

                            Lost in oneself, uncaring and marooned

                 Self centered, in an island, agonizing sick

                Fervently praying, morrow a better day                                 

                              No more exodus to depths of despondency

                               Believe, long for and the flight to ascendancy

                 And the hope train chugs in making gay